Shade attachment.



H. DOLIER, JR.

SHADE ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 31. 1915.

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SHADE ATTAGHMEN T.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2, 1917.

Application filed March 31, 1915. Serial No. 18,215.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY DOLIER, J12, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Cleveland, State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Shade Attachment, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to means for attaching a shadeor reflector to a support such as an incandescent electric lamp socket.

It is the object of my inventionto provide such an attachment which shall sup-- port the shade or reflector with firmness and certainty upon its support and which shall be at once simple and inexpensive and easily applied. To these ends I have provided an attachment of the character hereinafter described and claimed.

For an illustration of some of the forms my invention may take reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure l is a vertical sectional View, some parts in elevation, showing a shade or reflector supported upon a lamp socket by my attachment. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the attachment. Fig. 3 is a view illustrating a modified form of the attachment. Fig. 4: is a top plan view, partly in section, showing the application of a modified form of the attachment. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the modified form of attachment in Fig. 4.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, R is a shade or reflector secured between the lip 1 and the bead 2 of an extension member 3. At its upper end the member 3 terminates in the bead 4: and the inturned lip or flange 5. The attachment member is here shown as made of a single piece of preferably resilient wire formed as shown in Fig. 2. It comprises the parts 6 and 7 adapted to lie on the inside of the bead 4 beneath the lip or flange 5 of the member 3. At the ends of the parts 6 and 7 are the inwardly extending parts 8 from which rise the fingers 9 having the beads 10 and having their upper ends tied together by the tie members 11. The beads 10 of the fingers 9 receive the bead 12 on the lamp socket S in which is supported the usual electric incandescent lamp L. The tie members 11 are disposed above the socket head 12 and may stand away from the socket between the fingers 9 which they join, though the ties 11 may rest snugly against the socket S. As seen in Fig. 2, this at tachment is of such form as to its fingers 9 and ties 11 that the socket S may readily be guided and introduced into it and the fingers snapped to place to bring the beads 10 into registry with the socket bead 12.

In Fig. 8 the attachment is modified in form to the extent that each finger 9 is bent backwardly upon itself to a point below the socket bead 12 where the finger ends are oined by the tie 11 which lies beneath the bead 12. The parts 6 and 7 may be sprung into their position with respect to the bead 4: and lip 5 and may be so formed as to expand in the bead 4: to positively engage the inside of the bead 4, though my invention is not limited in this regard except where so expressed in the claims.

In Figs. d and 5 the attachment comprises two similar members comprising the fingers 9 having the tie 11 and the beads 10 and the outwardly extending members 8, all as in Fig. 2. To either side of the part 8 is a part 13, of greater or less extent, lying against the inside of the member 3. These parts 13 have extensions 14 which extend through holes in the member 3 and are then bent back as shown in Fig. 4. Obviously an attachment of the character illustrated in Fig. 3 may be attached to the member 3 in Fig. 4.

It will be understood that my invention is not limited to the employment of a member 3, for the attachment may be applied directly to the shade or reflector member R suitably formed at its upper end.

l/Vhat I claim is:

1. A shade or reflector attachment comprising socket engaging fingers of wire and ties integral with and connecting said fingers, and beads on said'fingers adapted to register with the lamp socket bead.

2. A shade or reflector attachment comprising socket engaging fingers and ties integral with and connecting said fingers, and beads on said fingers adapted to register with the lamp socket bead, said ties being disposed above said beads.

3. A shade or reflector attachment consisting of an integral piece, said piece comprising a plurality of pairs of socket engaging fingers and a tie for each pair integrally joining the fingers of said pair.

4. A shade or reflector attachment consisting of an integral piece, said piece comprising socket engaging fingers and a tie integrally joining said fingers, said fingers having beads adapted to engage a lamp socket bead.

the manner similar to that illustrated in 5. A shade or reflector attachment comprising a shade or reflector engaging portion, portions integral therewith and extending inwardly therefrom, socket engaging fingers on the inner ends of and integral with said inwardly extending members, and a tie integral with and connectingsaid finers. 6. The combination with a beaded shade or reflector, of an attachment therefor'having a resilient member expanded in the bead of. said shade or reflector, socket engaging a tie connecting said fingers, said fingers prising a reflector engaging having beads adapted to register with a lamp socket bead, said tie disposed above said beads. -9. A shade or reflector attachment com portion, socket engaging fingers on said portion, said fingers having beads for receiving a lamp socket bead, and an arcuate tie integral with and connecting said fingers at their upper ends.

10, A shade or reflector attachment consisting of an integral piece of resilient wire comprising a reflector engaging portion, fingers on said portion, and a tie integral with and connecting said fingers at their upper ends, said fingers having beads adapted to register with the lamp socket bead.

11. A h de or reflector attachment con sisting of an integral piece having shade or reflector engaging portions, upwardly extending socket engaging fingers at the ends of said' portions, and ties connecting the fingers at the ends of one of said portions with the fingers at the ends of another of said portions.

12. A shade or reflector attachment consisting of an integral piece having shade or reflector engaging portions, upwardly extending socket engaging fingers at the ends of said portions, and ties connecting the fingers at the ends of one of said portions with the fingers at the ends of another of said portions, said fingers having beads adapted to register with a lamp socket bead.

13. A shade or reflector attachment consisting of an integral piece having shade or reflector engaging portions, upwardly extending socket engaging fingers at the ends of said portions, and ties connecting the fingers at the ends of one of said portions with the fingers at the ends of another of said portions, said fingers having beads beneath said ties adaptedto register with a lamp socket bead.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature this 26 day of March, 1915.

HENRY DOLIER, JR.

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